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Art Dealer Says He’s Playing the Cillian Murphy-Looking Zombie in ’28 Years Later’ Amid Trailer Confusion: Danny Boyle ‘Always Had Me in Mind for the Role’


An art dealer has come forward saying he's playing that Cillian Murphy-looking zombie in "28 Years Later" after the trailer sparked confusion.

Murphy starred in 2002’s “28 Days Later” as Jim, a bicycle courier who wakes up from a coma to discover an apocalyptic London that has been destroyed by a zombie virus. The Guardian is revealing in a new story that the Murphy-looking zombie in “28 Years Later” is not the “Oppenheimer” actor but art dealer and acting newcomer Angus Neill. The official “28 Years Later” synopsis reads: “It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected.

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